Bug 425936 - Make it easy to support the MinGW that comes with Qt.
Summary: Make it easy to support the MinGW that comes with Qt.
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: CDT
Classification: Tools
Component: cdt-build (show other bugs)
Version: Next   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows 7
: P3 normal with 1 vote (vote)
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Assignee: cdt-build-inbox@eclipse.org CLA
QA Contact: Jonah Graham CLA
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Reported: 2014-01-16 15:42 EST by Doug Schaefer CLA
Modified: 2020-09-04 15:19 EDT (History)
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Description Doug Schaefer CLA 2014-01-16 15:42:45 EST 
Qt comes with it's own version of MinGW. Unfortunately to use it, the workflows are pretty complicated (i.e. setting a magic variable in the Build Environment settings).

I'd like to see a Preference Page that lets users set that. It would also be good to be able to set the MSYS path to set up the build environment.
Comment 1 Doug Schaefer CLA 2014-01-16 15:43:14 EST 
I'll submit a change request in a minute.
Comment 2 Doug Schaefer CLA 2014-01-16 15:52:50 EST 
I also moved MinGW into it's own plug-in. The toolchain ids remain the same so this shouldn't affect existing projects.
Comment 3 Marc-André Laperle CLA 2014-01-17 10:36:17 EST 
(In reply to Doug Schaefer from comment #2)
> I also moved MinGW into it's own plug-in. The toolchain ids remain the same
> so this shouldn't affect existing projects.

Could another plug-in extend the MinGW toolchain (plugin.xml extensions) and be broken because it doesn't depend on the new plug-in?
Comment 4 Doug Schaefer CLA 2014-01-18 23:46:10 EST 
Yeah, I noticed the LLVM plug-in does that for some bizarre reason. MinGW doesn't support LLVM or it'd be MinLM or something.

I think I'll undo that part of my change. We can save it for 8.4 when we have time to figure out how to do this right.
Comment 5 Doug Schaefer CLA 2014-01-20 12:02:16 EST 
Moving to next release. Ran into complications making the gnu.ui plug-in actually a UI plug-in. That'll kill headless builds. Also like to move MinGW out of gnu.ui but probably not best to do that in Kepler SR-2.
Comment 6 Jonah Graham CLA 2019-12-30 17:05:51 EST 
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